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A/N: Almost done! So, what's gonna happen next? Hurry! Check it out!
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CHAPTER 14: Finding a Way Home
My body began to fly backwards, "SONIC!!!" I screamed as Sonic pushed off the glass and flew over the tube towards me, his arm outstretched. My mind raced. I couldn't lose now, I was so close to home. I could feel the portal's grip on me, pulling me away. If I went in, I knew I would be lost forever in a random dimension with no hope of ever seeing my home again.
I reached for Sonic's hand, my muscles now aching. No matter what, I wouldn't give up, I told myself. I had made it this far as just a slowmo human - I could make it out of this. We finally grasped hands and I held on tightly, like it was the only thing keeping me alive. I grabbed on with my other hand as well.
We suddenly jerked to a halt. I saw that Sonic was barely holding onto the edge of the glass with his other hand. I couldn't help but smile.
Robotnik growled angrily and reached out to swat Sonic's arm, but in the process he lost his grip and fell off. Robotnik angrily flailed his arms and tried to grab on to anything, but found himself tumbling back into the portal. His voice echoed as he disappeared into the swirling vortex, "I HATE YOU HEDGEHOG!!!"
Sonic held on tightly and smiled, "Don't worry, I've got you!"
The sucking wind behind us began to die down. I glanced at the control console below and spied Tails hanging onto it. He was pressing the buttons again, trying to shut it down. I looked behind me and saw the portal begin to shrink, like a pool of water being sucked down a bathtub drain.
Eventually the vortex stopped and dissolved in wisps of blue streams. The wind died down and Sonic let go of the tank. He let go of my hand, triple-spinned below me and landed gracefully, catching me a second later, "You okay?"
"Yes - thanks to you!" I gave him a hug. I had never been so scared in my whole life, "I just wanna go home," I whispered to him, as he set me gently on the ground.
The portal had turned the laboratory into a complete diaster area. Machine parts and tools lay scattered everywhere. Tables lay overturned and hundreds of bottles of chemicals had spilled on the floor. The bots carefully waded through the mess over to us, Electra carrying Coconuts.
"What happened to Robotnik?" Scratch asked.
"I guess he got sucked into another dimension," Tails replied from the control panel.
"But which one?" Grounder asked.
"More importantly," Electra pointed out, "Can he come back?"
"Well, he does have a remote control," I said, "Though I guess that doesn't necessarily mean he can open a portal from the other side..."
"So in other words," Sonic said, "We have no idea..."
"Yep," I replied with a sigh.
"Great..." he replied, "Well, let's get out of here... I don't wanna be around in case he does show up," he grabbed my hand.
"But what about the Dimensional Matter Displacer?" I asked pointing to the shattered tube, "That's my only way home..."
"I don't think I can fix it..." Tails admitted, looking up from the control panel, "At least not by myself."
No, there had to be a way. Then, an idea came to me, "Well, what about Professor Von Schlemmer?" I asked, "Could he help you?"
Tails face broke into a wide smile, "Yeah! He would help a bunch!" he replied.
"One nutty professor, coming up!" Sonic announced, and then sped out of the room.
"But what about Coconuts?" Electra held him out to Tails, "Can you fix him too?"
Tails ran a hand through his hair nervously, "I dunno... He looks pretty banged up," Electra looked down at Coconuts, a tear running down her face, "But, I can try," Tails quickly added and took Coconuts from her. However, Tails didn't realize just how heavy Coconuts was and fell over.
"WHOA!" he exclaimed, "Hey, do you think you guys could put him on a table?" Tails asked, trying to lift him off.
Electra and I lifted him off Tails and carefully placed him on a nearby lab table. Tails tried to look at him, but discovered he was too short to look on the table - even on his tip-toes.
I pushed over a crate, and he hopped up on it, "Ah! Much better!" he replied with a smile and began to tinker with Coconuts. He prodded the wires and parts that were poking out of his abdomen - where Grounder's cannon blast had hit him. The covering had been completely blown off and a few of the pieces were charred beyond repair.
"Whoa! His main processor's fried!" he commented.
"What happened?" Grounder asked, looking over him.
"Ouch! Glad we missed it!" Scratch shuddered.
"Missed it? You did it!" I said.
"What?!" they exclaimed.
"Yeah," Electra confirmed, "You boys were really mean!"
"Really? I don't remember..." Grounder started. Then he sighed and shook his head, "I guess it's our fault that all this happened," he said, "Dr. Robotnik said if we gave him Sonic that he would forget all that we did and let us stay here again... We believed him and let him put Sonic in that machine. That's when he turned against us - he started yelling and then he deactivated us..."
I tried to explain, "Robotnik said he put some kind of personality device on you-"
"Then I knocked some sense back into you," Electra interrupted.
"I do remember that," Scratch rubbed his head.
"Gee, I'm sorry," Grounder stared at the floor.
"Don't worry about it," Electra patted him on the back, "We know you boys didn't mean it."
"Hey, could one of you guys bring me one of those deactivated robots? I need some spare parts," Tails pointed to a pile of robots stacked in a metal bin near the back of the room.
"Sure," Scratch walked over to the bin and dragged one out.
"Do you think he will be okay?" Grounder asked me.
"I hope so..." I replied.
Tails began tearing all kinds of parts out of the old robot and placed a few on the table. I had worked with computers in the real world, but these electronics were so much more advanced. I looked on in awe at the complex workings inside Coconuts. Tails quickly installed a few tubular parts using a screwdriver and then soddered a few of the loose wires back in place. He snapped in some microchip-looking squares and tore a piece of body casing off the robot.
"I know we didn't always get along," Grounder said quietly, "But Coconuts was kinda like my other big brother... I guess was just jealous, cause I know he's a bunch smarter than me..."
Tails screwed the new body plate onto a hinge and shut it, locking it into place, "Okay, I think I've got everything patched up..." he commented, and we smiled, "But I have no idea how to reactivate him." Well, that burst of happiness lasted real long.
"I'm HEEERRRRRRRRE!" a voice with a thick accent called from behind us, "That is, wherever here is."
We turned to find Sonic with Professor Von Schlemmer standing beside him. The professor looked a lot like how he did in the cartoon - though I had to admit seeing him for real was really wacky. His tall, flaming orange hair bobbed like jello as he walked toward us and his sea green skin reminded me of the tree frogs I used to work with at the zoo. Next to Robotnik, he was the only other humanoid on Mobius I knew about.
"We're at Robotnik's," Sonic reminded him, gesturing around the lab.
"Ohhh... why are we here?" the Professor scratched his head.
"Tails needs your help fixing this machine," Sonic indicated the Dimensional Matter Displacer, "So we can send Joanie back to her dimension," he pointed to me.
"Why hello there!" The Professor shook my hand, "A pleasure to meet you!"
"Same here, Professor," I replied.
"What dimension are you from, my dear?" he asked, studying me.
"Well, I don't know about dimension, but I'm from the planet Earth..."
"Ahh, in the Milky Way Galaxy..." he adjusted his round glasses, which were sitting on the edge of his long nose.
Now we we're getting somewhere! "You know about Earth, Professor?" I inquired.
He nodded, "Course I do!" he smiled, but then he seemed to lose his train of thought, "Uh... what were we talking about again?"
"Earth?" I answered.
He looked in the distance, and nodded, "Oh, yes... Yes, lovely this time of year in, uh, New York, yes?" It was good to hear something familiar.
"Yeah! Have you been to New York?" I asked excitedly.
His face turned to one of pure puzzlement, "New what? Never heard of it..."
Why did I even bother? I chuckled, "Nevermind."
"Professor, you remember me, right?" Tails greeted him.
"Oh, hello Tails!" He patted him on the head, "So what can I help you with?"
Tails showed Professor Von Schlemmer Robotnik's Dimensional Matter Displacer, and they began to speak in a techno babble. Sonic and I exchanged looks of confusion.
"Ahh, it looks like the snippenwhosit is clogged..." Professor Von Schlemmer removed the control panel face for the Displacer and began to tweak with the parts.
"Oh, so that's why the quark-accelerator wasn't reacting when I turned it on!" Tails exclaimed, hitting his forehead.
"Hey! How long is this gonna take?" Sonic asked, tapping his foot.
Tails and the Professor thought about this and they looked at each other, "I would say," Von Schlemmer rubbed his chin, "approximately fifteen minutes," he estimated, Tails nodding in agreement. They went back to work.
"I hate waiting," Sonic replied and started pacing around.
"But what about Coconuts?" Electra asked as she tugged on my shirt.
"Why don't I take a look?" I said.
"Really?" Grounder said, "You know about robots?"
"Well, not exactly," I replied with a nervous smile, "But it couldn't hurt to take a look, right?" I added, examining Coconuts. Maybe he had some kind of reset button or on/off switch - I knew Grounder had one of those.
"Hmph! I thought so," Scratch said, crossing his arms.
"Oh ye of little faith!" I commented as I flipped Coconuts over on his back. Electra stood patiently beside me, watching. I discovered a panel between his shoulderbolts. I picked up a nearby flathead screwdriver and popped it open. Inside, I discovered a toggle switch - unfortunately, it didn't have a label. I reached for it.
"Hey!" Scratch stopped me, "Maybe that's a self-destruct switch!"
"That's silly!" I replied and tried to flip it.
He pulled my hand away, "But what if it is?!"
I pulled it back, "But what if it isn't?!"
"Here, I'll do it!" Electra pushed between us and flipped the switch. Scratch dove under the table, and I took a few steps back. We waited a second, but nothing happened.
"Oh well, it was a good try," I said and flipped it back.
Almost immediately, Coconuts headlight sparked on and a few noises in him whirred. I shut the panel as he began to stir.
"Coconuts!" Electra cried and helped him sit up, "How are you feeling Sweets?"
Coconuts wobbled a bit, "Whoa! What hit me?"
"Uh, I did," Grounder said, "I'm sorry."
"Well, I-I guess that's okay," Coconuts replied, scratching his head.
I hugged him, "I want to thank you Coconuts! You saved my life!"
"I did? Really? Really?" He jumped down off the lab table and danced around.
"You certainly did!" Electra smiled, "That was so brave how you took that blast for Joanie! You're a hero!" she gave him a kiss.
"WOW-wow-wow!" his lightbulb flashed brightly and he did a backflip up onto the lab table, "Hey, I could get used to this hero stuff!" he leaped off again and picked up Electra, spinning her around.
Sonic approached us, "Glad to hear it," he smiled, "You guys certainly have proved yourselves... Whaddaya say? Let's put the past behind us," he stuck out his hand, "Friends?"
"You got it," Coconuts shook Sonic's hand vigorously, "Pal!"
"Alright Hedgehog," Scratch shook his hand, "Er... Sonic."
"Me too!" Grounder extended his robotic hand, "Oh boy! Does this make me your sidekick?"
"No, I have one," Sonic said with a grin, glancing at Tails, "The best!"
Electra puttered up to Sonic, "Could you please take us to Scrap Valley?"
"Sure!" he replied, and took hold of her pincher, "Then let's speed keeds!"
"Wait!" I called, "I want to say goodbye... Just in case we don't see each other again."
"Oh, all right," Sonic crossed his arms, "I'm waiting..."
"Goodbye guys!" I said, giving them each a big hug.
"Gee, do you really have to leave Mobius?" Grounder asked, "We don't have that many fans!"
"Yeah, you're pretty cool... for a human," Scratch shuffled his foot, "Too bad there aren't more like you..."
"Sure there are!" I squeezed him tightly, "Just keep your eyes open. You guys are great! Thanks for all you've done for me - you guys are real heroes." They blushed and teared up a bit.
"Thanks for caring about us," Coconuts said, "We won't forget ya! Nope! Nope!"
"You're the best, Sweets!" Electra's eyes filled with tears, "Don't you forget that either!" I hugged her extra hard, "Take care of yourself."
"And you take care of the boys," I whispered to her, "They need you." She smiled and wiped a tear away.
"Okay, gang!" Sonic gathered them up, "All aboard! Next stop: Scrap Valley!"
"I can't believe we're actually going to have a home!" Scratch replied, a tear in his eye.
"Yeah! A real one!" Grounder agreed.
"With no one to yell at us! Or beat us up! Or make us clean messy toliets - yuck!" Coconuts added, "It'll be great!" They all grabbed onto Sonic.
"Then we're up, over, and gone!" Sonic called.
"BYE!" They called, waving at me, as Sonic sped out the door with them hanging on for the ride.
I waved and walked out of the lab, and down the hall. I stood in the open front doorway. I watched them zoom down the hill and on the road slowly disappearing out of sight over the dawning horizon. A tear fell - I missed them already.
TO BE CONTINUED...
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A/N: I can't quit thanking everyone for reading my story. Thank you! Thank you! I never expected to get so many reviews... Don't worry, only 2 chapters to go! (And a very interesting Epilogue!)
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A/N: Almost done! So, what's gonna happen next? Hurry! Check it out!
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CHAPTER 14: Finding a Way Home
My body began to fly backwards, "SONIC!!!" I screamed as Sonic pushed off the glass and flew over the tube towards me, his arm outstretched. My mind raced. I couldn't lose now, I was so close to home. I could feel the portal's grip on me, pulling me away. If I went in, I knew I would be lost forever in a random dimension with no hope of ever seeing my home again.
I reached for Sonic's hand, my muscles now aching. No matter what, I wouldn't give up, I told myself. I had made it this far as just a slowmo human - I could make it out of this. We finally grasped hands and I held on tightly, like it was the only thing keeping me alive. I grabbed on with my other hand as well.
We suddenly jerked to a halt. I saw that Sonic was barely holding onto the edge of the glass with his other hand. I couldn't help but smile.
Robotnik growled angrily and reached out to swat Sonic's arm, but in the process he lost his grip and fell off. Robotnik angrily flailed his arms and tried to grab on to anything, but found himself tumbling back into the portal. His voice echoed as he disappeared into the swirling vortex, "I HATE YOU HEDGEHOG!!!"
Sonic held on tightly and smiled, "Don't worry, I've got you!"
The sucking wind behind us began to die down. I glanced at the control console below and spied Tails hanging onto it. He was pressing the buttons again, trying to shut it down. I looked behind me and saw the portal begin to shrink, like a pool of water being sucked down a bathtub drain.
Eventually the vortex stopped and dissolved in wisps of blue streams. The wind died down and Sonic let go of the tank. He let go of my hand, triple-spinned below me and landed gracefully, catching me a second later, "You okay?"
"Yes - thanks to you!" I gave him a hug. I had never been so scared in my whole life, "I just wanna go home," I whispered to him, as he set me gently on the ground.
The portal had turned the laboratory into a complete diaster area. Machine parts and tools lay scattered everywhere. Tables lay overturned and hundreds of bottles of chemicals had spilled on the floor. The bots carefully waded through the mess over to us, Electra carrying Coconuts.
"What happened to Robotnik?" Scratch asked.
"I guess he got sucked into another dimension," Tails replied from the control panel.
"But which one?" Grounder asked.
"More importantly," Electra pointed out, "Can he come back?"
"Well, he does have a remote control," I said, "Though I guess that doesn't necessarily mean he can open a portal from the other side..."
"So in other words," Sonic said, "We have no idea..."
"Yep," I replied with a sigh.
"Great..." he replied, "Well, let's get out of here... I don't wanna be around in case he does show up," he grabbed my hand.
"But what about the Dimensional Matter Displacer?" I asked pointing to the shattered tube, "That's my only way home..."
"I don't think I can fix it..." Tails admitted, looking up from the control panel, "At least not by myself."
No, there had to be a way. Then, an idea came to me, "Well, what about Professor Von Schlemmer?" I asked, "Could he help you?"
Tails face broke into a wide smile, "Yeah! He would help a bunch!" he replied.
"One nutty professor, coming up!" Sonic announced, and then sped out of the room.
"But what about Coconuts?" Electra held him out to Tails, "Can you fix him too?"
Tails ran a hand through his hair nervously, "I dunno... He looks pretty banged up," Electra looked down at Coconuts, a tear running down her face, "But, I can try," Tails quickly added and took Coconuts from her. However, Tails didn't realize just how heavy Coconuts was and fell over.
"WHOA!" he exclaimed, "Hey, do you think you guys could put him on a table?" Tails asked, trying to lift him off.
Electra and I lifted him off Tails and carefully placed him on a nearby lab table. Tails tried to look at him, but discovered he was too short to look on the table - even on his tip-toes.
I pushed over a crate, and he hopped up on it, "Ah! Much better!" he replied with a smile and began to tinker with Coconuts. He prodded the wires and parts that were poking out of his abdomen - where Grounder's cannon blast had hit him. The covering had been completely blown off and a few of the pieces were charred beyond repair.
"Whoa! His main processor's fried!" he commented.
"What happened?" Grounder asked, looking over him.
"Ouch! Glad we missed it!" Scratch shuddered.
"Missed it? You did it!" I said.
"What?!" they exclaimed.
"Yeah," Electra confirmed, "You boys were really mean!"
"Really? I don't remember..." Grounder started. Then he sighed and shook his head, "I guess it's our fault that all this happened," he said, "Dr. Robotnik said if we gave him Sonic that he would forget all that we did and let us stay here again... We believed him and let him put Sonic in that machine. That's when he turned against us - he started yelling and then he deactivated us..."
I tried to explain, "Robotnik said he put some kind of personality device on you-"
"Then I knocked some sense back into you," Electra interrupted.
"I do remember that," Scratch rubbed his head.
"Gee, I'm sorry," Grounder stared at the floor.
"Don't worry about it," Electra patted him on the back, "We know you boys didn't mean it."
"Hey, could one of you guys bring me one of those deactivated robots? I need some spare parts," Tails pointed to a pile of robots stacked in a metal bin near the back of the room.
"Sure," Scratch walked over to the bin and dragged one out.
"Do you think he will be okay?" Grounder asked me.
"I hope so..." I replied.
Tails began tearing all kinds of parts out of the old robot and placed a few on the table. I had worked with computers in the real world, but these electronics were so much more advanced. I looked on in awe at the complex workings inside Coconuts. Tails quickly installed a few tubular parts using a screwdriver and then soddered a few of the loose wires back in place. He snapped in some microchip-looking squares and tore a piece of body casing off the robot.
"I know we didn't always get along," Grounder said quietly, "But Coconuts was kinda like my other big brother... I guess was just jealous, cause I know he's a bunch smarter than me..."
Tails screwed the new body plate onto a hinge and shut it, locking it into place, "Okay, I think I've got everything patched up..." he commented, and we smiled, "But I have no idea how to reactivate him." Well, that burst of happiness lasted real long.
"I'm HEEERRRRRRRRE!" a voice with a thick accent called from behind us, "That is, wherever here is."
We turned to find Sonic with Professor Von Schlemmer standing beside him. The professor looked a lot like how he did in the cartoon - though I had to admit seeing him for real was really wacky. His tall, flaming orange hair bobbed like jello as he walked toward us and his sea green skin reminded me of the tree frogs I used to work with at the zoo. Next to Robotnik, he was the only other humanoid on Mobius I knew about.
"We're at Robotnik's," Sonic reminded him, gesturing around the lab.
"Ohhh... why are we here?" the Professor scratched his head.
"Tails needs your help fixing this machine," Sonic indicated the Dimensional Matter Displacer, "So we can send Joanie back to her dimension," he pointed to me.
"Why hello there!" The Professor shook my hand, "A pleasure to meet you!"
"Same here, Professor," I replied.
"What dimension are you from, my dear?" he asked, studying me.
"Well, I don't know about dimension, but I'm from the planet Earth..."
"Ahh, in the Milky Way Galaxy..." he adjusted his round glasses, which were sitting on the edge of his long nose.
Now we we're getting somewhere! "You know about Earth, Professor?" I inquired.
He nodded, "Course I do!" he smiled, but then he seemed to lose his train of thought, "Uh... what were we talking about again?"
"Earth?" I answered.
He looked in the distance, and nodded, "Oh, yes... Yes, lovely this time of year in, uh, New York, yes?" It was good to hear something familiar.
"Yeah! Have you been to New York?" I asked excitedly.
His face turned to one of pure puzzlement, "New what? Never heard of it..."
Why did I even bother? I chuckled, "Nevermind."
"Professor, you remember me, right?" Tails greeted him.
"Oh, hello Tails!" He patted him on the head, "So what can I help you with?"
Tails showed Professor Von Schlemmer Robotnik's Dimensional Matter Displacer, and they began to speak in a techno babble. Sonic and I exchanged looks of confusion.
"Ahh, it looks like the snippenwhosit is clogged..." Professor Von Schlemmer removed the control panel face for the Displacer and began to tweak with the parts.
"Oh, so that's why the quark-accelerator wasn't reacting when I turned it on!" Tails exclaimed, hitting his forehead.
"Hey! How long is this gonna take?" Sonic asked, tapping his foot.
Tails and the Professor thought about this and they looked at each other, "I would say," Von Schlemmer rubbed his chin, "approximately fifteen minutes," he estimated, Tails nodding in agreement. They went back to work.
"I hate waiting," Sonic replied and started pacing around.
"But what about Coconuts?" Electra asked as she tugged on my shirt.
"Why don't I take a look?" I said.
"Really?" Grounder said, "You know about robots?"
"Well, not exactly," I replied with a nervous smile, "But it couldn't hurt to take a look, right?" I added, examining Coconuts. Maybe he had some kind of reset button or on/off switch - I knew Grounder had one of those.
"Hmph! I thought so," Scratch said, crossing his arms.
"Oh ye of little faith!" I commented as I flipped Coconuts over on his back. Electra stood patiently beside me, watching. I discovered a panel between his shoulderbolts. I picked up a nearby flathead screwdriver and popped it open. Inside, I discovered a toggle switch - unfortunately, it didn't have a label. I reached for it.
"Hey!" Scratch stopped me, "Maybe that's a self-destruct switch!"
"That's silly!" I replied and tried to flip it.
He pulled my hand away, "But what if it is?!"
I pulled it back, "But what if it isn't?!"
"Here, I'll do it!" Electra pushed between us and flipped the switch. Scratch dove under the table, and I took a few steps back. We waited a second, but nothing happened.
"Oh well, it was a good try," I said and flipped it back.
Almost immediately, Coconuts headlight sparked on and a few noises in him whirred. I shut the panel as he began to stir.
"Coconuts!" Electra cried and helped him sit up, "How are you feeling Sweets?"
Coconuts wobbled a bit, "Whoa! What hit me?"
"Uh, I did," Grounder said, "I'm sorry."
"Well, I-I guess that's okay," Coconuts replied, scratching his head.
I hugged him, "I want to thank you Coconuts! You saved my life!"
"I did? Really? Really?" He jumped down off the lab table and danced around.
"You certainly did!" Electra smiled, "That was so brave how you took that blast for Joanie! You're a hero!" she gave him a kiss.
"WOW-wow-wow!" his lightbulb flashed brightly and he did a backflip up onto the lab table, "Hey, I could get used to this hero stuff!" he leaped off again and picked up Electra, spinning her around.
Sonic approached us, "Glad to hear it," he smiled, "You guys certainly have proved yourselves... Whaddaya say? Let's put the past behind us," he stuck out his hand, "Friends?"
"You got it," Coconuts shook Sonic's hand vigorously, "Pal!"
"Alright Hedgehog," Scratch shook his hand, "Er... Sonic."
"Me too!" Grounder extended his robotic hand, "Oh boy! Does this make me your sidekick?"
"No, I have one," Sonic said with a grin, glancing at Tails, "The best!"
Electra puttered up to Sonic, "Could you please take us to Scrap Valley?"
"Sure!" he replied, and took hold of her pincher, "Then let's speed keeds!"
"Wait!" I called, "I want to say goodbye... Just in case we don't see each other again."
"Oh, all right," Sonic crossed his arms, "I'm waiting..."
"Goodbye guys!" I said, giving them each a big hug.
"Gee, do you really have to leave Mobius?" Grounder asked, "We don't have that many fans!"
"Yeah, you're pretty cool... for a human," Scratch shuffled his foot, "Too bad there aren't more like you..."
"Sure there are!" I squeezed him tightly, "Just keep your eyes open. You guys are great! Thanks for all you've done for me - you guys are real heroes." They blushed and teared up a bit.
"Thanks for caring about us," Coconuts said, "We won't forget ya! Nope! Nope!"
"You're the best, Sweets!" Electra's eyes filled with tears, "Don't you forget that either!" I hugged her extra hard, "Take care of yourself."
"And you take care of the boys," I whispered to her, "They need you." She smiled and wiped a tear away.
"Okay, gang!" Sonic gathered them up, "All aboard! Next stop: Scrap Valley!"
"I can't believe we're actually going to have a home!" Scratch replied, a tear in his eye.
"Yeah! A real one!" Grounder agreed.
"With no one to yell at us! Or beat us up! Or make us clean messy toliets - yuck!" Coconuts added, "It'll be great!" They all grabbed onto Sonic.
"Then we're up, over, and gone!" Sonic called.
"BYE!" They called, waving at me, as Sonic sped out the door with them hanging on for the ride.
I waved and walked out of the lab, and down the hall. I stood in the open front doorway. I watched them zoom down the hill and on the road slowly disappearing out of sight over the dawning horizon. A tear fell - I missed them already.
TO BE CONTINUED...
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A/N: I can't quit thanking everyone for reading my story. Thank you! Thank you! I never expected to get so many reviews... Don't worry, only 2 chapters to go! (And a very interesting Epilogue!)
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